Phil Latzman, in his Jan. 21 column "Should Out-of-State Rich Guys Decide Our Elections?" castigates the Supreme Court for its Citizens United decision. As so often happens with such criticism, there is no discussion of the underlying case.
Citizens...

To me, there's a bigger question beyond last week's Supreme Court ruling in the Hobby Lobby case involving an employer's right to exclude certain contraceptive coverage from their health insurance plans based on religious beliefs.
That question: Why is...

WATCH: The full interview with the 'Hamilton' creative team here.MORE 'HAMILTON'The birth of 'Hamilton,' told by the man who was in the room where it happenedHe's your Aaron Burr, sir: 'Hamilton' star Joshua Henry on why kids in the audience bring him...

NEW YORK —For those who imagine a fine line exists between activism and entertainment, Michael Moore has arrived on Broadway to demonstrate how unbreachable that line in the wrong hands can be. "The Terms of My Surrender" is what he calls the sloppy...

Stephen Bannon could barely finish his sentences as he implored the listeners of his Breitbart News radio show to see the new movie "Clinton Cash."
It was July 20, the homestretch of the 2016 presidential campaign, and Bannon was describing Bill and...

As an Academy Award-winning producer and a political conservative, Gerald Molen has worked in the entertainment business long enough to remember when being openly Republican in Hollywood was no big deal.
“In the ’90s, it was never really an issue that...

It’s safe to say Tom Brady and Michael Moore don’t have much in common, other than neither will ever name their son Roger.
After failing a tryout with the Chippendales, Moore fast-tracked his film career when he made “Roger & Me.” He chased around...

Unfolding as the nation chooses its next president, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival will serve two platters of red meat on the eve of Election Day with back-to-back Nov. 7 screenings of "Michael Moore in TrumpLand" and a film by Moore's...

Michael Moore announced that he would be debuting a Donald Trump movie Tuesday night at the IFC Center in New York.
The movie, "Michael Moore in TrumpLand," is a film version of his one-man show, which he has been performing in Ohio.
It's described at...

In its accidentally serious fashion, "Tickled" illuminates a specific, disturbing niche in the realm of fetishism. At the same time, it falls squarely in the mainstream of a lot of contemporary documentaries. Its tone is that of blithe snark, cut with...

After Merle Haggard passed away Wednesday at home in Palo Cedro, Calif., country music was pouring its heart out over word of the Golden State native's death from pneumonia at 79.
"He was my brother, my friend. I will miss him," Willie Nelson said in a...

Marvel antihero Deadpool could not be stopped at the weekend box office as his movie flew past other newcomers “How to Be Single” and “Zoolander 2.” The picture from 20th Century Fox also unseated the two-week box office leader “Kung Fu Panda 3.”
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I drove by a four-screen neighborhood theater the other day, and the marquee said, simply: STAR WARS. Playing on all four screens. There was a time, before the Force awakened, when other movies existed.
Friends, that time has returned. It soon will be...

Hot-button issue documentaries have long been an academy favorite. But the 15 films on this year's feature documentary shortlist showcase an uncommonly broad range of approaches, from the activist to the elliptical, a reminder that, even as the...